Hello There fellow cyber earth-people, and welcome to my ongoing herbal
healing page... Since this is the time of year when folks come down
with colds, flus, and viruses, i'll be giving a recipe of a chinese herb
that builds the immune system.
i feel that health and healing are so vital
to human life that taking one's own health into their own hands is the
first and foremost responsibility of every fellow human being to themselves.
I not only became a vegetarian
in nursing school, but i started learning about alternative medicine
as well as experimenting with the mucus-diet healing system by
Arnold Ehret. Through my experimentations with this diet, i found that
what Ehret discovered was actually how to heal oneself thru the mucusless
diet supplemented with fasting and exercise. i experienced he was
right! The body is an incredibly amazing entity, in that
given the chance it can heal anything!.....My newly discovered
insights were very clear to me....diet, health, and healing are so
connected; not only health of the body, but of the mind too, for mind
and body are one and the same, there's no separation.....So i quit nursing
school 2 weeks before graduation and started studying natural healing through
foods, herbs, and raw juices over the last 25 years, doing extensive
intensive fasts...and i'm still learning! One important lesson
learned is that the human body is a highly sophisticated organism and knows
precisely what to do at any given moment that a knowledge of
healing is very key in inabling the body to do what in needs to do
to correct the imbalances.

Once on a 30 day fast it came very clear "don't mess with
mother nature"! i've read stories of people breaking their fasts
wrong and died. Like eating boiled potatoes after a three week fast...
it's like knowing not to jump in a dog fight to break it up... you just don't
do that!?! so like anything you read an instruction manual, learn how
the body works, how to care for it and maintain it, keeping it well
lubed so it will serve you a long time. Health is Wealth!~~~ Herbs
were a large focus in my studies for i've seen them working in the healing
process and that was enough to convivce me to start tincturing and making
my own medicines in 1989. Today i tincture whenever i can in my busy
schedule and on the New Moon. i like to take my tinctures straight
and i want them to taste good. i like to add licorice not
only for i'ts sweet taste, but licorice is good for the adrenals and the
brain. The way i've approached my combinations of herbs is through
reading about the herbs for a particular disease, tonic, or preventative.
Then i combine those herbs together using my intuition for the amounts
of each herb; sometimes it's what i have on hand! The Proportions
are: 4 oz. herbs to 1 pint of vodka and good water.

RECIEPE: 4 oz. Astragulus (high grade also found in chinatown) 1
pint (2 c) of 80 proof vodka and about 1 c of R/O water. Crush
the astragulus up a little with your hands and pack in a wide mouth dark
colored jar. Add vodka and water, cap, shake, lable, and keep in a
dark place for 2 weeks shaking twice a day. Put up on the New Moon
and pour off on the Full Moon. The moon's waxing helps the extraction
process too in extracting the alkaloids. Strain through a pourous clean
cloth and press out all the liquid. Pour into a small bottle
and keep the rest in a dark colored bottle, and take from it.